A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth. She felt no pain.… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is… — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists, like… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do… — Romero Britto Copy Share Image
The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty. — Nicholas Roerich Copy Share Image
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter,… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I'd have loved to be a painter, but I'm very mercurial, so it wouldn't have worked. — Taylor Russell Copy Share Image
